Senior Project Manager
NBBJAbout the role
NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today!
The role at a glance:NBBJ Boston is seeking a Senior Project Manager with demonstrated experience managing construction phase services for large-scale (500,000+ SF), highly complex Healthcare projects (preferred) or Academic Medical Center research projects. The Senior PM is expected to be an integrated member of a project team, with responsibilities to manage project financials, contractual requirements, team workflow and deliverables (in partnership with other team leaders) and interpret client needs. In your new role, you will:- Build and maintain day-to-day working relationships with the Client, CM, OPM and consultants
- Manage team complexity – collaboratively plan, organize, and supervise the work of project staff as necessary to achieve required deliverables and schedule.
- Support administration of the work of the project during construction, including management of the prime agreement and subconsultant agreements
- Negotiate and draft/write fee proposals and add services requests
- Develop and execute a management work plan for the overall project(s)
- Solve problems creatively with consultants
- Responsible for correspondence, reports, documentation, and general administration for the overall project(s) as appropriate
- Apply sound and diversified knowledge of architectural principals for all aspects of the project(s)
- Lead decision-making process with fiscal accountability and responsibility
- Assist with proposal preparation and participates in client presentations/interviews
- Develop and leverage existing client relationship for the purposes of winning work.
- Assist Practice Leaders in developing market or client campaigns and interview to win new work.
- 12+ years of professional experience in Architecture
- At least 5 years of experience as a Project Manager
- Experience with large, complex, multi-phase healthcare (preferred) or Academic Medical Center research projects
- Bachelor's degree; B Arch or M Arch desired
- Architectural licensure is required; LEED or other sustainability accreditation preferred.
- Knowledge about LEAN practice and adept in change management
- Must have a proven track reco
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